Reimagine Architects

We’re honoured to see the BC First Nations Justice Centres featured in Canadian Interiors magazine as part of a broader conversation on Indigenous design, collaboration, and cultural specificity.

Led by Reimagine Gathering, our Indigenous-owned sister company, with support from Reimagine Architects, the project helped the BC First Nations Justice Council (https://www.linkedin.com/company/bcfnjc/) open five new Indigenous Justice Centres in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Surrey, and Kelowna. Each Centre provides free legal representation and wraparound supports for Indigenous people across British Columbia, creating spaces where clients can access services in environments shaped by dignity, care, and cultural belonging.

The work was delivered through a light-touch retrofit strategy. Across the five sites, the design team worked carefully within existing conditions, with minimal new wall construction, focusing on space planning, interior treatments, millwork, custom wallpaper, glazing films, furniture, and the integration of Indigenous art.

Twenty-nine Indigenous artists were engaged across the five locations, with each Centre reflecting the Nations, languages, plants, materials, and visual traditions of its region. Rather than one repeated design language, the result is five distinct spaces shaped by local context and cultural authorship.

Congratulations to the BC First Nations Justice Council on this recognition, and thank you to everyone whose care, collaboration, and commitment helped bring these Centres to life, including Reimagine Gathering and the broader Reimagine project team: Vivian Manasc, Tiffany Shaw, Tiffany Creyke, Jordan Polanski, Yangyang Jiao, Veronica Burch, Richard Ranta, Toni Chui, Gloria Alamrew, Erika McElhinney,, Anthony Martinez, and Robyn Adams, along with the artists, Elders, contractors, trades, and community members whose voices shaped this work.






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The book is here!

Reciprocity by Design has been years in the making - shaped by conversations, projects, communities, landscapes, and the ongoing question of how architecture can support Indigenous tourism in ways that are regenerative, non-extractive, and grounded in sovereignty.

It explores the role of design in strengthening hosting, protecting boundaries, building local capacity, and turning community aspirations into built realities.

We’re so excited to see this work move from idea to manuscript to object.

Order your copy now: link in bio!

Chapter Six of Reciprocity by Design invites Architecture for Indigenous tourism as a place-based, specific enough to carry story, durable enough to host, and intelligent enough to operate as an economic engine without compromising what is protected.

Reimagine is pleased to announce ReThink Red Deer () as the recipient of the 2026 Blue Sky Award!

ReThink Red Deer’s winning submission focuses on the future of the JJ Gaetz Farmstead in Red Deer. Their proposal includes updating the community-informed site plan created during Red Deer’s Centennial in 2013 for the Farmstead and a purpose-built Deep Winter Greenhouse that could support growing, learning, and community programming through more of the year.

The greenhouse is envisioned as a community demonstration and training site where people can learn about local food systems, cold-climate growing, renewable energy, urban agriculture, and land stewardship. By integrating solar energy concepts into the design, the project aims to create a practical, educational space that supports food resilience and hands-on learning in Red Deer.

The project will also be guided by a Traditional Land Use Assessment process, creating a framework for design, interpretation, and public storytelling to move forward with care, consent, and respect for Indigenous knowledge governance.

Established in 2011, the Blue Sky Award provides pro-bono architectural services to Alberta non-profit organizations, helping move meaningful community projects closer to reality. Through the Blue Sky process, Reimagine will help ReThink Red Deer move from a strong community vision toward a clearer concept package, including early site planning, greenhouse design, phasing, costing, and materials that can support future funding, approvals, and partnerships.
Congratulations to ReThink Red Deer. We are grateful for the opportunity to support a project rooted in food, energy, learning, stewardship, and community future!
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Credit: City of Red Deer Archives
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